Video: How does any coach overcome or fix this?

[yimyammer]

 

[silvrNblue]

Only interview I watched after the bill's shellacking, and even being PC Jimmy hammers a nail in JJ's sorry butt.

 

[yimyammer]

To me, this is one of the biggest obstacles any coach will have to overcome because I'm not sure it can ever be fixed given the powers that be don't want it fixed and likely dont even see it as a problem

 

[Jake]

Jimmy's assessment is correct. Cowboys players are treated like rock stars even without winning anything.

All the more reason why they need a hard-nosed coach to keep them in check, not one who coddles them. The owner/GM/President will do enough coddling on his own.

 

[Mark]

Spot on. Would love to have Jimmy back in Dallas. <sigh>

 

[acr731]

Garrett must quit immediately. That's the only way to fix this mess.

 

[CouchCoach]

He hired as tough a HC as he could have hired in Parcells, he even wanted them to earn their numbers. He quickly realized the problem and had that showdown with Emmitt over dominoes. Not a lot of HC's are going to release a star like that but he did. Imagine the surprise among the players. The new sheriff is a badass.

The Owens situation was the most revealing of the entire Jones ownership situation. Parcells didn't want him but got him anyway and tried to get in front of the star thing quickly and Jones intervenes and starts taking Owens to breakfast to soothe his hurt feelings over being "the player". Parcells knew Owens needed to grow up inside to fit that body but Jones kept him a little boy and sure enough when the time was right, the little boy showed up again.

What the hell is that Star? A reward for accomplishing nothing. But that's the MO, the same with his family, everybody gets a job, we'll learn how to do them later. Why wait for rewards? Let's get them now and we'll worry about earning them later.

 

[CouchCoach]

Spot on. Would love to have Jimmy back in Dallas. <sigh>

That ship has sailed, he's done. Any man as compettive as he is can walk away from a 62-7 loss as his swan song, he's done inside.

 

[erod]

The Cowboys do it on the stat sheet.

Champions do it when it matters.

 

[yimyammer]

Garrett must quit immediately. That's the only way to fix this mess.

Ha!

I wish!

 

[MaaS]

A staff comes in and pays attention to detail in training camp. That's how this is fixed.

 

[Ranched]

Urban would show some of our players what discipline is all about. Not the other way around.

 

[CouchCoach]

Urban would show some of our players what discipline is all about. Not the other way around.

Not unless he's allowed to do that and he wasn't really known as a disciplinarian at FL or OSU.

 

[CouchCoach]

The answer is by changing the culture and the HC is not responsible for that with the Cowboys. That was the first thing Parcells addressed when he took over, he knew that had to change before anything else changes.

 

[quickccc]

Urban would show some of our players what discipline is all about. Not the other way around.

Urban " would show discipline " , yet he's caught up and involved in his own scandals ? yeh right .

 

[Blackthorn]

The answer is by changing the culture .

Stabbing each other with scissors, cocaine, a slush house, And drunk driving, that was a successful culture for Jimmy. Just saying, maybe Dallas needs more bad character guys.

I think Bill won a Super Bowl with Lawrence Taylor with the same type of culture.

Maybe the Cowboys need the party house, scissors, illegal substances and total Mayham to be successful.

 

[Jipper]

Just. Win. Baby

 

[cowboy_ron]

It won't as long as Jerry is above ground..............it only makes us feel better.

 

[nobody]

It's not anything we didn't already know and have been saying for years. Sadly, Jerry won't listen.

Still, it's confirmation that Jerry is problem numero uno and Garrett isn't the answer to help mitigate that.

 

[Creeper]

I think we have been saying the same thing for years. Every team has adoring fans. The Packers have those idiot cheese heads all over the country too. The Patriots are certainly getting more than their fair share of attention. Yet those teams manage to play winning football. But I think Jimmy is talking about Jerry. And in that case he is right. Jerry drafts a player in the first round and then argues he's a great player because he's a first round draft pick. But often, he's a good player, but not an impact player. The Cowboys are full of guys like that. Good players drafted high but not the kind of players that win games by making plays when the chips are down.

Then, after Jerry hypes them, he overpays them even though as Jimmy said, they haven't done anything. I do believe a coach can change this. First, a coach demands effort on every play. Second, a coach can weed out the players who want to play and want to win from the players who just like getting a big fat paycheck. Excellence doesn't just happen. It takes effort, planning and execution. And execution comes from preparation. Garrett talks about execution but what does he do to improve it? Whatever it is, its not working.

Its Jerry who does not have what it takes because Jerry is either making the decisions or not making them, that put the players on the field the have to play the game. Before that, he chooses the coaches that are either preparing them or not preparing them for games.